Presenting the mystery At the museum exhibition, the first thing that catches the eye is a strange catchphrase. "The ...
The Cubist painting “Woman with a Fan” by Jean Metzinger will be returned to the heirs of the Jewish art collector Emanuel ...
It’s a hauntingly effective image. A blonde figure stands, back to the viewer and paint roller in hand, covering up the images of Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, and Malcolm X with strokes of ...
Marlon Mullen’s show at the Museum of Modern Art, the first by a developmentally disabled artist, speaks volumes. The artist Marlon Mullen goes through a meticulous process of preparing before ...
Archaeologists believe they have discovered the world’s oldest-known representational artwork: three wild pigs painted deep in a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi at least 45,500 ...
In conversation with Observer, the artist describes working without concept or deadline, the longing for completeness he borrowed from Kafka and how Marseille inspired him to embrace a broader ...
A show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago challenges the timeworn critics’ contention that painting is dead, expanding the idea of what painting can be. By Jane L. Levere This article is part ...
The Nazis forced the sale of the piece during an auction in October 1940, months after the invasion of the Netherlands ...
He’s hiding in The Night Watch, his right eye peeking out from behind a group of civic guardsmen. In Descent From the Cross, the same man stands on a ladder and helps lower Jesus’s body. He also ...
Robert Russell among his paintings for Stateless Objects at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles “I was always drawing, I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t,” the artist Robert Russell told me recently, on the ...
They say to find out what you really want, go back to when you were a child. When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a painter — but I was never great at it. I was discouraged because in art class, my ...